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Bicycling our way into work and out of the Great Recession

Bicycling creates a little wealth. But more importantly, it creates a lot of well-being. That's what the bicycle economy is all about.

Critical List: Oil spills into Yellowstone River; Americans are driving less

42,000 gallons of Exxon oil spilled into the Yellowstone River in Montana over the weekend. Regulators had warned the company that the pipe wasn't safe.

The river's particularly high, which isn't helping clean-up.

Atmospheric pollution from China's coal use temporarily masked global warming: sulfur particulates reflected more light back into space, keeping the planet’s temperature from rising too fast. But over time the carbon dioxide released from the coal will push temperatures upwards.

Tom's Kitchen: pasta with snap peas and fennel

Snap peas and parsley and fresh hearts of fennel ... these are a few of my favorite things.

Simply groundbreaking: Ask Umbra on green celebrations

One reader thinks a traditional ribbon-cutting just won’t cut it for a green building dedication. Ask Umbra looks into some festive alternatives.

The EPA goes retro

The EPA's plans for retrospective review of regulations appeal to businesses and include mostly nominal updates.

Grist guilty pleasures: Independence Day edition

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Friday music blogging: Jessica Lea Mayfield

Ohio native and Black Keys protege Jessica Lea Mayfield makes languid, laid-back magic.

Hunting feral pigs in Texas [VIDEO]

Nonnative feral pigs in Texas cause millions of dollars of damage each year and wreck local ecosystems. The best way to keep them from running hog-wild so far is to hunt them -- so I join in on a Texas-style hog hunt to find out if they're as delicious as they are destructive.

Give 7-Up to your baby!

Hey, whatever else is wrong with our current cultural relationship with sugar water, at least nobody's pushing it as a baby formula alternative anymore, right? This 1956 ad says that 7-Up is "so wholesome" that "lots of mothers" give it to their babies. The company's evidence for this wholesomeness? They list the ingredients, even though they don't have to!

Live chat: How to build your deep-green MBA

Join us for a live chat on July 12 with Ralph Meima, MBA program director at Marlboro College. We're talking MBAs the green way. How do you build the best program for yourself? What are your options? How does it all work? And do you have to eat granola in the morning?